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Prime Minister Julia Gillard

It is stated in Article 14 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” Under Article 14, do White South-Africans, a minority ethnic people in South Africa, fit the requirements of a refugee, do they therefore have a right to seek asylum in Australia and is Australia adequately upholding its obligations under the International Refugee and Human Rights Laws?

The Refugee Convention and the Protocol define a refugee as someone who is outside the country of their nationality or habitual residence and has a well founded fear of persecution on the grounds of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, and is unable to seek or is fearful of seeking protection in that country or is fearful of returning to their country. A person who is a refugee has a number of important rights under the Refugee Convention, including: the right to seek asylum in a country outside their country of origin which has agreed to be bound by the Refugee Convention, the right not to be returned to the country where they have a well-founded fear of persecution, the right not to be discriminated against or penalized because they are a refugee, the right to equal access to the courts, freedom of religion and movement, the right to education and employment and access to travel documents. (Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No. 6) 2001 (Cth), section 5).

White South Africans are a minority ethnic group in South Africa since the 17th Century.

Now, upon reading about the desperate sufferings that the white South-Africans as a minority ethnic group must endure, we bring this to the attention of the Australian Government and hereby request, with great appreciation, that the White South-Africans be granted asylum based on the obligations under the Refugee Convention and other International Human Right Treaties which the Australian Government is a signed party to.

Signed,

Cara-Lee Wiese

This petition closed over 1 year ago

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Please sign this petition if you believe it is important that the Australian Government should be made aware of the daily murders on the White South-African People and that they should be granted...

Please sign this petition if you believe it is important that the Australian Government should be made aware of the daily murders on the White South-African People and that they should be granted Asylum by the Australian Government.